Argus gets a new editor [and looks for a new home]

The local Newsquest publication The Argus has entered into a contract to sell its Hollingbury base and wants to return to the city centre as it prepares for the arrival of a new editor.

Michael Beard, editor since 2005, left the newspaper late last year to take up a communications role with Health England; he is being replaced by Mike Gilson from the Belfast Telegraph.

The Argus abandoned its previous city centre base in Robert Street in the North Laine in 1992 and moved to offices in the same building as the printing presses on Hollingbury Industrial Estate on the outskirts of the city. Printing of the paper was relocated from Hollingbury to Southampton in 2009.